"Abandoned" systematically by the four men of importance in her life Ophelia is left by the end of Act 3 with no one to whom she may turn. In effect, it can be compared to losing all four of one's limbs, leaving a person unable to move. Observe: Laertes: Leaves her to pursue his own desires in Frances
Hamlet: Withdraws his protestations of love upon sensing her father's trap
Claudius: Has no use for her after the trap fails to prove Hamlet's love is the problem
Polonius: After his meddling loses Hamlet for Ophelia, it costs Polonius his life.

Like a limbless soul that must either adapt or die, Ophelia chooses the one defense that allows her to be direct and true, something she has not been able to do, while these four men have been controlling her actions. She becomes genuinely insane. In this assignment, you will be asked to evaluate how the plot events that have unfolded throughout the play work to create this change in her character.

Reread the introduction above. Why do the gentleman and Horatio suggest that it would be good for Gertrude to speak with Ophelia at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 5? Come up with a reasonably academic theory as to why Gertrude refuses based upon her guilt.

Which of the following passages from “the californian’s tale” to advance the theme that pride can lead to regret? a.california has living dead men walking around b. tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn c. thirty-five years ago i was out prospecting on the stanislaus

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

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